Children love outdoor play. Now teachers can combine the magic and excitement of the outdoors with activities that encourage and support learning! With more than 100 new teacher-created, classroom-tested outdoor activities, Let’s Take It Outside! engages children’s minds and bodies as they explore the limitless bounds of the outdoors while also building key skills in areas like math, literacy and language, science, art, and music. Perfect for ages 3 to 6, the activities in Let’s Take It Outside! take kids on an outdoor adventure as they make mud-dough letters, go on a rainbow scavenger hunt, and play animal charades. Let’s Take It Outside! is the result of a nationwide contest among teachers. The best of the best activities are selected and organized by theme for easy use. • Counting • Alphabet • Colors • Shapes • Art • Touch • Sound and sight • Plants and gardening • Bubbles and air • Light and shadow • Animals and insects • Dramatic play • Large motor skills

The Music Learning Profiles Project: Let’s Take This Outside uses ethnographic techniques and modified case studies to profile musicians active in a wide range of musical contexts not typically found in traditional music education settings. The book illuminates diverse music learning practices in order to impact music education in classrooms. It goes on to describe the Music Learning Profiles Project, a group of scholars dedicated to developing techniques to explore music learning, which they call "flash study analysis." Twenty musicians were interviewed, invited to talk about what they do, how they learned to do it, and prompted to: ? Identify key learning experiences Discuss their involvement in formal learning environments Predict how they see musicking practices passing to a future generation The Music Learning Profiles Project offers a nuanced understanding of the myriad approaches to music learning that have emerged in the early part of the twenty-first century.

Corporate America can be very exciting but also "nerve racking." For many of us, it is considered to be a major part of the American dream. We dress it up and glamorize it hoping to convince ourselves that it is exactly what we have always dreamed about. Sometimes it is. Most often, it is not. The truth is that we immediately classify it as just another "no frills" part of life. Finally, we are forced to conclude that we had taken our dream too seriously. From nine to five we "chin up" and silently endure this extension of life with all of its frustrating politics. Without emotion and passion, in a robot-like fashion, we master the art of holding it all in. When we go home, we "exhale" with little regard for those, friends and family, caught in the tailwind that had been brewing for the past eight hours. "Let's Just Take This Outside!" says all of the things we wanted to say. With humor and sarcasm, but without exaggeration, here lies the center of our tailwind. This is an inside view of exactly what we endured in the workplace. Book jacket.

The spirit of Don Quixote burnishes the six main characters of this novel that begins with the arrival of North Americans Kyle and Carmen Daly in Central America. The two settle within a civilization awash, into a culture termed indistinct even by those who exploit it. Their adventure entangles them. They are trapped between an on-rush of modern values and those of the archaic Maya, whose descendents — outcast by the society of which they form the bulwark — remain steadfast in chivalric beliefs. As unwitting abettors to religious, social and economic bigotry patronized by U.S. missionaries, embassy staff, cable television ministries and businessmen mate–seekers, along with a cadre of Hispanic adoption attorneys and U.S. citizen wannabe’s, Kyle and Carmen attempt to stand upon the principals of their lineage: Right and Wrong. From this moral basis they try to manage the skirmishes of child theft, adultery, assassination, murder and revenge into which they are drawn. They find themselves within a Quixotic menagerie. Their embroilment, both comic and tragic, becomes, at best, a tenuous legacy. Through intricate plotting, The Quixote Imbroglio examines the melding of Spaniard and Indian cultures — today imaginable as an emerging solidarity at once catalyzed by, and complicated by, that third founding culture of the New World: the dogmatic Northamerican colonist.

Contemporary members of Congress routinely use the media to advance their professional goals. Today, virtually every aspect of their professional legislative life unfolds in front of cameras and microphones and, increasingly, online. The Public Congress explores how the media moved from being a peripheral to a central force in U.S. congressional politics. The authors show that understanding why this happened allows us to see the constellation of forces that combined over the last fifty years to transform the American political order. Malecha and Reagan’s keen analysis links the new "public" Congress and the forces that are shaping political parties, the Presidency, interest groups, and the media. They conclude by asking whether the kind of discourse that this "new media" environment fosters encourages Congress to make its distinctive deliberative contribution to the American polity. This text brings historical depth as well as coverage of the most current cutting edge trends in new media environment and provides an exhaustive treatment of how the U.S. Congress uses the media in the governing process today.

Tom Garrett is a cowboy who spent most of his life as a trail boss and in some rather bizarre circumstances became the marshal of Tombstone, Ariz. This book is about a major criminal who was captured by Tom and escapes while being returned to Tombstone for hanging. He plans to exact revenge on not only Tom but the entire town, for having sentenced him to hang. Tom has been taken prisoner, placed in jail and with no weapons, must figure a way to take back his town from this unscrupulous outlaw. This book is a continuation of Tom Garretts Ride.